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The Filibuster

What happened to the Twins?

Seth S.Saint Paul, MN__________________________

Ah, yes, the Minnesota Twins. What did happen to those paragons of fundamentally sound baseball? An analysis of such depth requires patience, dedication and an insatiable hunger for the truth, so I put the RSBSinterns to the task and they have provided the following slide show:

Nope, not even the healthy return of Morneau could make the pain of the above image go away. In fact, 2012 sorta seems like a good time to reset everything. Surprisingly, the Twins do have some decent offensive production (Mauer, Morneau, Willingham, Plouffe), but their pitching has been atrocious. Like, Kent Hrbek farting in your face type of “atrocious”. The average ERA of their six starters is over 5 and they have been blown out (lost by 5+ more runs) 23 times so far. And the bullpen? YIKES! Don’t ask them to hold a lead ‘cuz it’ll be difficult!

Like old baseball men love to say, “You’re only as good as your pitching”, and, well, when your pitching resembles the bottom of a porta-potty and the rest of the team can’t stay healthy, awful is pretty much what ya get. Don’t believe me? Ask the perennial sCrUBS.

Hate me ‘cuz I made you look at that famous Mauer back hair guy again, just don’t hate me ‘cuz I’m right.

Peace,

Jeff (and interns)

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5 Comments

Don’t forget the twenty-and-a-half quality relievers they lost in the 2010-11 offseason. Plus the fact that they got rid of a guy who could have been a quality catcher to put in place of Joe Mauer for….Matt Capps?
-Mateohttp://mateofischer.mlblogs.com

Yikes, that looks like a story board in anticipation of the scariest little golden book ever, sure to terrorize generations of children into brushing their teeth, eating their vegetables, and avoiding spending billions to build a ballpark their players have trouble hitting in.
— Kristen

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